How To Destroy The Stock Market In 8 Steps

Investor Marc Andreessen tweeted an eight-step plan on how to destroy the public stock market.

According to Andreessen, increased regulation discourages companies from going public. He points out that the number of publicly traded companies already naturally decreases because of takeovers, mergers, and bankruptcies.

We've included the Tweets below:

1/How to kill the public stock market, Step 1: # of public companies naturally shrinks each year due to mergers, takeovers, bankruptcies. — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) March 31, 2014

2/Step 2: Use regulatory "reforms" to radically reduce rate of new IPOs, shrinking # of public companies from 8,800 to 3,600 since 1997. — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) March 31, 2014